Christian Wolff’s Philosophy of Medicine: An Early Functional Analysis of Health and Disease

Camposampiero, Matteo Favaretti

doi:10.1484/j.quaestio.5.112336

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Galen's Legacy Beyond Galenism1

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“…Thus, the goal of medicine consists in preserving or restoring that natural condition of the human body whose opposite is disease, the preternatural (i.e., anti-natural) condition of inability to perform the natural functions (1611: 122). Herman Boerhaave (1721: § §695-696) assumed similar definitions as unproblematic, whereas Wolff offered an extensive discussion of this Galenic legacy rooted in his early teleo-mechanistic account of structures and functions (Favaretti Camposampiero 2016b).…”

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